Scholarly and popular interest in British cinema has never been stronger, with films ranging from the Merchant/Ivory pictures through Notting Hill finding both critical and commercial success in America. As such, The Guide to British Cinema represents an invaluable guide to the nation's cinematic output, including entries on major British actors, directors, and films from 1929 through the present day. The volume also highlights both major cycles such as the Gainsborough melodrama, the Ealing comedy, and the British new wave; as well as less well-defined cycles including the vein of dark melodramas that characterized the British cinema from 1945 to 1950. Such figures as Alfred Hitchcock, David Lean, and Dirk Bogarde are covered in detail, as well as Christopher Lee, Roy Ward Baker, Ray Winstone, and other long-serving but less well-known artists. The Guide pays close attention to films including The Third Man and Brief Encounter as well as genre pieces such as Brighton Rock. In all, the volume represents the first full-length examination of its subject, providing an irreplaceable resource for both film scholars and historians of British culture.

Gives the reader and researcher a full sense of the depth and variety of British cinema from 1929 through the present day, with entries on all major British actors and directors as well as significant and successful films and genres.

About the Author
GEOFF MAYER is the Chair of the Cinema Studies Department and Deputy Chair of the School of Communication, Arts, and Critical Enquiry at Latrobe University in Melbourne, Australia. He co-edited The Oxford Companion to Australian Film and was the author of New Australian Cinema and Film as Text.


Book Information
ISBN 9780313303074
Author Geoff Mayer
Format Hardback
Page Count 464
Imprint Greenwood Press
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Weight(grams) 879g